Herz der Finsternis

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is "something that cannot be: A completely realistic depiction of a journey, of the vastness of the forest and the beginnings of exploitation. And, simultaneously, it is a journey into a delusional state, into the abyss of the self, to the dark spots at the bottom of the soul.» (Frankfurter Rundschau)

"The hero returns from both journeys a terminally damaged man, back to a world where he can no longer be at home. In this allegory of almost biblical dimensions, the barbarically civilized world becomes an effigy of the individual and vice versa: in both cases an anchorless construction over a gaping abyss. Furthermore, the material has a painful, acute urgency.» (Berliner Zeitung).

John von Düffel’s adaptation was premiered in Deutsches Theatre Berlin in September 2009, and "condenses the script with a feeling for the appropriate tone" (Die Zeit).

"The trip into the foreign becomes a journey into our own unconscious. Categories which seemed so clear, like good and bad, black and white, wilderness and civilization, are dissolved.» (Spiegel Online)